ALIENS ALL BORTUS CLAIRE ED GORDON ISAAC JOHN KELLY KLYDEN MOOSKA OFFICER PAST_KELLY PEOPLE TALLA VOICE YAPHIT GORDON So, Kelly used to make Ed drink more than he wanted to at parties, right? KELLY Here we go again, this is so not true. TALLA GORDON No, no, no, no... ED This is absolutely true. KELLY No, we both drank a lot. ED Wha We both drank a lot, but you were "The Drinker." GORDON Yeah, but you always came in first. KELLY This is a friggin' lie. TALLA ED It is not, is it The waiter would come by, and say, "Do you want another round?" KELLY No. This is, this is... full of lies. Absolute lie. ED And I would say, "No, I'm okay, I've had enough." And she would go, "No, no, no, he wants another one! Get him another one!" KELLY I never, I never peer pressured you into anything. GORDON One more. Yeah... Get him one. ED And yet somehow I was always the one who threw up. TALLA Okay wait, I want to hear the rest of the story. GORDON Okay, okay, so let me finish. So we're all at this reception at Admiral Halsey's house, and Philippa Jones is there. TALLA The novelist. GORDON Yes, right. So, Kelly just spent two hours pouring scotch down Ed's throat. KELLY Okay, you're demoted. TALLA GORDON And we're leaving, and Philippa walks up, and says, “It was nice meeting you,” and Ed goes “G'night, Fallopia.” GORDON He called her Fallopia. ED Yeah, they heard it you first time. Thanks. GORDON All right, I'm gonna pack it in for the night, guys. TALLA Me, too. I have a security briefing at 0800. ED All right. We'll see you tomorrow. KELLY Okay, night, you guys. GORDON Night. TALLA Goodnight. KELLY Bye. ED You know, I miss those days. KELLY What, me getting you wasted? ED Yeah, all of it. Our first date actually does not seem like that long ago. KELLY Do you remember you called me at 9 00 a.m. the next morning? ED Was it that early? KELLY Oh, it was that early. 9 00 a.m. You had zero game. I almost bailed on you after that. ED Really? KELLY Almost. ED Well, I can see how a guy being excited to see you would be a major turn off. KELLY Hey, if I'd been five years younger I probably wouldn't have answered, but I just had too much fun with you. ED I know you know this, but... us trying again is still not off the table for me. KELLY Look, those were fun times. And we were really in love. But I just... I haven't changed my mind. Ed, the Orville, i it's like a whole other world for us. And it just makes the past seem almost like a different lifetime. ED Good lifetime. KELLY A great lifetime. But, you know, this this works right now. You know? We've become a good team, and really great friends. I mean, in some ways, better friends than when we were married. And, um... I still don't think a Captain and First Officer... together... is a responsible command decision. JOHN Isaac, this is unbelievable. If even half of your research has legs, this is still the biggest breakthrough in decades. ISAAC Much of the work was done by Dr. Aronov himself. However, my superior intelligence has enabled me to amplify its potential for application. Eventually, it could be used to link a temporal field to the neurological pathway of a biological or artificial organism. JOHN And we could travel through time as easily as we travel through space. ISAAC It is theoretically possible. KELLY Chief. It's your favorite time of the month. JOHN Already? KELLY Yup. JOHN Uh, just for the record, the dysonium field condenser analysis is something a first year cadet could do. Why's it always gotta be me? KELLY We all just sleep better at night knowing it gets your personal tender loving care. JOHN Why don't you just pop a sleeping pill? KELLY I'll try that, too. KELLY Grayson to bridge. What the hell was that? ED Stand by, Kelly. Lamarr, what just happened? JOHN Captain, we just passed through a massive gravitational wave. ED Cause? JOHN Natural phenomenon. Probably from a neutron star collision somewhere. ED Damage report? TALLA No significant damage reported. ED Bortus, run a ship wide diagnostic and a structural analysis. BORTUS Aye, sir. KELLY I'm heading to the bridge. Isaac, go to engineering and assist Lamarr. ISAAC Yes, Commander. VOICE PAST KELLY Where am I? ISAAC Commander, your exterior ornamentation appears to have transformed. How did you accomplish this with such rapidity? PAST KELLY Who are you? How did I get here? ISAAC I am Isaac. You are on the Orville. PAST KELLY What the hell is going on? I I, I was... in my apartment in... ISAAC That is incorrect. You were here exactly 31 seconds ago. Do you not remember? PAST KELLY Discontinue program. ISAAC This is not a simulation. Isaac to Bridge. I believe Commander Grayson is unwell. KELLY Isaac, I'm right here. I'm fine. ISAAC Inform Lieutenant Keyali we have an intruder in Science Lab 1. CLAIRE What's the last thing you remember? PAST KELLY I was in my apartment. On Earth. I was drinking coffee. CLAIRE She appears healthy, although her stress hormone levels are still high and she's moderately hungover. But her DNA is an exact match with what we have on file for Commander Grayson. PAST KELLY Why do you keep calling me “Commander?” TALLA Could she be an alien life form of some kind? Or a clone? CLAIRE No. Her DNA contains the same specific degradations at the molecular level as our Kelly. The only difference is... she's approximately seven years younger. KELLY Oh my God. PAST KELLY What? KELLY Who are you? CLAIRE Commander, I know this is going to sound insane, but... she's you. KELLY That's impossible. I'm me. ED Doctor, what the hell is going on here? PAST KELLY Ed? What are you doing here? CLAIRE Commander, she is you. Seven years ago. KELLY Say that one more time? PAST KELLY Say that one more time? ISAAC Chief Lamarr and I have formulated a hypothesis. The gravitational wave we encountered amplified the temporal field generated by Dr. Aronov's device. In this case, the spike in field energy may have been sufficient to transport Commander Grayson's past self into our present. ED Can you reverse it? JOHN The short answer is We don't know. KELLY Okay, I have a pretty basic question. If she really is me from the past, why don't I remember all of this? And if it turns out we can't reverse it, why am I here at all? ISAAC It is possible that when Lieutenant Grayson was extracted from the past, a new timeline was generated. Or perhaps the original timeline fractured. We do not know. GORDON Well, what about the rest of us? How come there's not a young Gordon or a pubescent Bortus walking around? ISAAC Commander Grayson was closest in proximity to the device at the time of the event. ED Why seven years? JOHN We have a theory about that, too. Isaac may have been farther along in his research than he realized. Commander, what exactly were you thinking about when the wave hit? KELLY Well... Last night, Ed and I were talking about our first date, and... I was thinking about that. PAST KELLY That was yesterday. We went out yesterday. ED So you're saying Kelly's thoughts did this. JOHN I know it sounds crazy. But that's quantum physics. ISAAC Even on Kaylon, the relationship of a conscious observer to quantum level events in time and space is not fully understood. It was part of the subject of my research. KELLY I need a drink. PAST KELLY Me too. KELLY I don't know how the food synthesizers are gonna replicate enough wine for two Kelly's. ED I got a B plus in Temporal Theory. KELLY I would've thought you of all people would've gotten an A. ED Well, nobody gets an A. It's time travel, nobody really understands it. But I do have one question. What do we tell her about the past seven years? KELLY What do you think? ED Well, if we're dealing with a tangent timeline, and we are able to send her back, then nothing she knows will matter. But if it's a single timeline, then we should lock her in a room and keep her away from any information about the future. KELLY How do we know which one it is? ED We don't. And I'm not gonna confine her to quarters when she's done nothing wrong. So, my philosophy is, when in doubt, tell the truth. PAST KELLY You have to forgive me, this is... just a whole lot to process. We... got married. ED Yes. KELLY Yes. PAST KELLY And... then we got divorced. KELLY That's right. PAST KELLY And now... we're serving together as Captain and First Officer on the same ship. ED That's correct. PAST KELLY I I mean, if you'd asked me to predict the next seven years of my life, this this would've been guess number 9,000. ED Are you okay? PAST KELLY Um... Yes. No. I... I seriously have no idea what to think right now. What, um... I mean, why did we get divorced? ED That's a multi faceted situation. KELLY Well, it's a little complicated. ED I was commuting to Epsilon Eridani for work every day KELLY And I was on Earth— ED and I was working a lot KELLY He had trouble with balance ED lot of trouble, actually— KELLY I felt very alone ED and one night after like months of this KELLY It was really bad ED There was a... KELLY There was an infidelity. ED Mm. PAST KELLY Wait. Who cheated on who? KELLY Well, I wouldn't say cheated, exactly... because we found out later the Retepsian was in heat. ED Uh, that's kind of a textured thing, it's not... Mm hmm. PAST KELLY Okay, I'm very confused. KELLY You know what? I have a better idea. You're probably exhausted. I remember being pretty hungover that morning. So, how about I give you access to my personal logs and you can get caught up. I mean, you are me, anyway. TALLA Must all be pretty overwhelming, huh? PAST KELLY I just... I feel like my whole life has already happened and I didn't even have any say in it. TALLA I feel like that sometimes and I haven't even traveled through time. Maybe it'd help to just block out what everyone tells you about you. These are your quarters for the time being. I'm pretty new here, too. So, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm always around. PAST KELLY Thanks. GORDON Hey, you know, I just had a thought. If Young Kelly meeting Old Kelly has changed the timeline, would we even know about it? KELLY How about we say “Past and Present Kelly?” BORTUS Perhaps the timeline has already been changed. TALLA Yeah, I mean, it would just be like what we already know. ED You guys will not get me into a discussion of time travel logic, I would rather chew broken glass. JOHN Captain. KELLY Lamarr. Please tell us you have something. ISAAC We have been analyzing the scans of the gravitational wave and its effect on the Aronov Device. As the gravitational pulse was a natural phenomenon, there is an irreducible chaotic element. JOHN It's too random to lock into. If we had seen it coming, we could've targeted our scans. But as of right now, there's no way to duplicate it. Which means... there's no way to send Kelly back. PAST KELLY Isn't there anything at all they can do? I mean, we have a supposedly brilliant engineer and a Kaylon working on this. I'm really stuck here? ED I wish we had better news. I'm sorry. PAST KELLY What about my friends? M My family? KELLY Most of them are still on Earth. PAST KELLY Oh, come on. Those are your friends now. Even Mom wouldn't understand. This is, this is your world, not mine. KELLY I know it's really hard. But you can take all the time you need to decide what you want your life here to be. It seems clear by now, for whatever reason, the timeline is intact. Nothing you do will affect the future. PAST KELLY Wow. What a great thing to hear about yourself. KELLY I didn't... You know what I meant. ED Look, you have lots of options. You could go back to Earth. Choose your own Union posting. We would help you in any way we can, and I'm sure Admiral Halsey would do the same. PAST KELLY I just, um... I need to think. PAST KELLY Come in. TALLA Hey. I just figured I'd check up on you. See how you're doing. PAST KELLY A little better, I guess. I just still can't process it. I mean, who am I here? I have no place. What am I supposed to do? TALLA I know it seems impossible, but you're gonna be fine. PAST KELLY How? TALLA Well, what are your goals in life? PAST KELLY To fall in love. To be captain of my own ship. To help make the galaxy a better place. TALLA And you can still do every single one of those things. None of who you are has changed. PAST KELLY What's the point when she's gonna do it all first? And if she fails, then I know there's no point in even trying. TALLA Look, time travel is messed up, I know. But as crazy as it seems, you are now two separate people. And you have to start seeing it that way. She has her life, and you have yours. And yours can be anything you want it to be. And selfishly, I like that I have a new friend. Now, as long as you're here, what do you say we get you a proper uniform, Lieutenant? ALL JOHN I don't think so. Man, this girl can really soak it up. PAST KELLY Oh. Please, this is nothing. At Union Point, I used to drink all night, and then report for duty the next morning. JOHN What? PAST KELLY This one time, I was still tipsy when we were breaking gravity on Rhealon IV. PAST KELLY I wasn't buckled in and I went sliding down the corridor like a luge. ALL PAST KELLY It was actually really fun. So the next day, I convinced all the other cadets to strip down and grease up. JOHN Right. GORDON Mm. PAST KELLY And when the ship broke gravity, we all went through the main conduit like it was a Slip 'N Slide. ALL PAST KELLY Which would've been hilarious if I had not slid right into my commanding officer in my underwear. GORDON Oh my God, what did you do? JOHN What? PAST KELLY Let me tell you something, nobody cleans a toilet better than me. ALL KELLY Lieutenant Grayson. Can I have a word? PAST KELLY Of course, Commander. KELLY Lieutenant, there are certain things I'd really like to keep private on this ship. Like that story. PAST KELLY Oh. I I'm sorry, I didn't think it was that big of a deal... It was funny. KELLY I remember. And I understand that memory is as much yours as it is mine. But the people you're telling are my crew. They're under my command. And for things to work properly on this ship, they need to respect me. PAST KELLY I get it. I was... just trying to make friends here. But you're right, I wasn't thinking. KELLY I learned this over a long seven years When you become a leader, there's a distance you have to maintain. You can't be everyone's friend. PAST KELLY Yeah, but I'm not a leader yet. And, honestly, the idea of policing everything I do so it doesn't affect your command is... well, it's kinda suffocating. KELLY All the baggage without the rank. I know, it sucks. But here's the upside We each have the ultimate confidant. Someone who knows all of our secrets, our hopes and fears... we can tell each other anything. PAST KELLY Like a twin sister. KELLY Why not? PAST KELLY There is something I don't know, actually. KELLY What's that? PAST KELLY Is it really over? With you and Ed? KELLY It is. We've both moved on. PAST KELLY Oh... KELLY So, have you thought at all about what you want to do? PAST KELLY Well... I love what I've seen of this ship so far. And Talla's really cool, so is the rest of the crew. So I was thinking... what if I requested a posting on the Orville? KELLY Really? PAST KELLY I mean, it's the closest thing I have to a home in this world. At least for now. I mean, it it could be really great, right? KELLY Yeah. I I guess it could be. PAST KELLY So what do you say, Commander? KELLY Call me Kelly. PAST KELLY You, too. ALIENS ED Oh, come on! How are you doing that? GORDON Gotta hit the left arrow, hold the top button down. ED That's what I'm doing! I'm literally doing what you just said. Look, see? GORDON You gotta hold the top button down. ED Gordon, look at my hand. I'm pressing the top button, see? GORDON Yeah, but you're not tapping the left arrow. ED Oh my God, this is so stupid. ALIENS ED Wait, hang on. Wait, where's he ? Wait, how am I supposed to ? GORDON You gotta back him up. ED How do I back him up? GORDON Press the top left button, hold the red arrow down, tap the X button. ED Gordon, I don't have 20 fingers, this is... Come in! ALIENS PAST KELLY Hey. ED Hey. VOICE Fatality. ED Oh my God, that's, that's just great. PAST KELLY Is Is this a bad time? ED No, uh, it's fine, actually. What's up? PAST KELLY Well, I was wondering if I could talk to you. Alone. GORDON Oh. Ah. It's all good. I gotta go. Good game. ED Yeah, good game. So, what's going on? How you settling in? PAST KELLY Not bad, considering. Everyone's been really amazing. I feel very... looked after. ED Well, it's a good crew. PAST KELLY Yeah. Listen... this is a weird situation, so I'm just gonna come right out and say it. I had a really great time with you the other night. ED The other night... Oh, yeah, yeah Your... other night, yeah, yeah, right. PAST KELLY Yeah, my other night. Which, for me, is still fresh in my mind. So, I guess what I was wondering is, um... I would love a second date. ED Knock knock. KELLY Hey. ED Listen, I have... kind of a weird question. KELLY What's up? ED Well, it's it's really weird. Like, um... like, you might get riled up weird. KELLY What is it? ED You remember when you were dating Cassius, and I supported you guys, and I was totally cool about it? KELLY Eventually, yes. ED And you still feel that we should not get back together because our jobs make it too complicated? KELLY Where are you going with this? ED How would you feel... about me going on a second date? With her? Look, I know it's out there, but she came to my quarters, and... I didn't know what to say. All I knew was that I didn't want to say no. KELLY And you're equating this with Cassius. ED Well yeah, you found someone and so did I. KELLY Yeah, it's a little different. ED Think of it this way. It's almost like it could be a second chance. For us. KELLY There is no “us” without me. She's not me. ED I know, but... she was. And truthfully, I'd really just like to date somebody who's not a Krill. KELLY S So you just... want to start over? ED How many times have human beings wished that they could go back and fix the past? Well, this is a real life opportunity. My job consumed me when we were together, and I drove you right out of my life. I have regretted that ever since. I'm just saying, all I want is a chance to fix it. But that's why I came here first. All you have to say is that you want to try again with me. And I won't even consider this. KELLY You know I can't. Look, I have no right to tell you not to pursue this. But just remember, seven years have passed for you, too. You've changed, just like me. And you may find it harder to get along with young me than you think. ED Well, I'll be careful. And... thanks. PEOPLE PAST KELLY So, you're telling me Isaac turned against his own people to save the Union? ED Yeah. No one knew what to do with him after that. The Admirals wanted to deactivate him, but Kelly and I talked them out of it. PAST KELLY Kelly and I... ED God, I'm sorry, I keep doing that... PAST KELLY No, it's it's okay. I know this is just as trippy for you. ED Yeah, well, I kind of doubt that, but I'm doing my best. PAST KELLY So... when'd you call me? ED Hm? PAST KELLY After our first date. You obviously called me and asked me out again. ED Oh, yeah, um... yeah, I think it was, like, two, three days later? Something like that? PAST KELLY Really? ED Yeah. PAST KELLY Hm. I don't know if I buy that. ED Why not? PAST KELLY I don't know, you just didn't seem like you had that much game. If I had to guess, I would say it was, like, the next day. ED Well, that's PAST KELLY And probably before noon. ED Okay, well, there's no advantage to me being in the future if I can't use it against you. PAST KELLY MOOSKA Can I bring you two another round? ED Oh no, I'm fine. I'm good. I've had plenty. PAST KELLY Oh, absolutely. No, we need, we need two more. ED I'm I'm okay. I've had three of these, I'm fine. I really don't, I'm fine. PAST KELLY Another ro He, he, he needs another one. He needs another one. He has to have one. MOOSKA The lady wins. I'll bring you another round. PAST KELLY Thank you. ED Okay. Déjà vu. PAST KELLY PAST KELLY ED This, this is your fault. You realize that. PAST KELLY Oh, no, no, no, no, I take no responsibility. ED This is all your fault. I I have to maintain a decorum in front of the crew. I can't Four drinks is too many. For me. PAST KELLY No, I just ordered drinks. You drank them. It's just all on you, buddy, man, this... ED This, we're here, by the way, we're here. PAST KELLY Oh, we're here? ED Yeah. PAST KELLY Um... ED Well... PAST KELLY I, uh... I had a really great time. Again. ED So did I. Again. Which, in my case, is a little more of a loaded statement. PAST KELLY Everything you said after the third drink was a loaded statement, so... ED Oh, wow, that was a dad joke. PAST KELLY ED Y You just made a dad joke. PAST KELLY Oh... ED That's... what, w who are you? PAST KELLY You want to kiss your dad goodnight? ED Wow. This is, this is so not romantic at all. PAST KELLY You know it is. Come here. ED It is? PAST KELLY Come here. Goodnight. ED Goodnight. OFFICER Captain. ED Lieutenant. PAST KELLY Come in! Hey. Good morning. KELLY Hi. Listen... I need to talk to you about something. PAST KELLY What's up? KELLY I'm having real reservations about this whole thing. With you and Ed. PAST KELLY You are. KELLY I don't think it's a good idea. PAST KELLY Well... I just figured since you guys aren't together anymore... KELLY That's my point, actually. You didn't experience it, but he was pretty devastated when it ended. So was I. And I just... I know me at your age. I don't want to see him get hurt. I don't want to see you get hurt. I know how this turns out. PAST KELLY Well, I don't plan to let it turn out that way. KELLY I didn't plan to, either. PAST KELLY But you did. KELLY Yeah. That's what I'm warning you about. PAST KELLY With all due respect, Commander, I don't need warnings. I'm not you. I mean what I say. And if this really is a new timeline, how do you know I haven't found my soul mate? KELLY Who are we kidding? You are me. Just a younger, more naive me. I mean, I know myself. I used to say things like “find my soul mate.” Well, guess what? You don't find soul mates. You become soul mates. By growing together. And if you'd been through this marriage like I have, you'd be wise enough to know that. PAST KELLY Wait. So, you're saying you have a better handle on our life than I do? Have you seen the hot mess you've made of it? KELLY You know what? Forget it. I have to get back to the bridge. PAST KELLY Wait. Just hang on and listen to me because I have something to say. And I know you don't want to hear it, but you have to. KELLY You know, if you want to make a massive mistake, fine, go ahead. What? PAST KELLY You're not married. You're not a Captain. You maintain a “distance” from your crew. There were three things I wanted in life, and you haven't come close on one. You've made my future a disappointment. ED Everything okay? KELLY It's fine. ED Okay. BORTUS Captain, scans have picked up two Kaylon ships on what appears to be an intercept course. ED Have they seen us? BORTUS Unable to confirm. KELLY Better safe than sorry. ED Gordon, alter course and go to quantum. GORDON Aye, sir. BORTUS The Kaylon are not pursuing. ED That was close. Maintain course until we're out of scanning range. ED You know, Gordon, I gotta tell you, I feel like I have a real chance at making things right. GORDON With Kelly. ED Yeah. I mean, it's like all of the excitement of the first time around, but with all the wrinkles ironed out, you know? GORDON Look, dude, I'm gonna be honest with you. I think it's a bad idea. ED What? Why? GORDON You forget, I saw everything. I was there. I saw what that divorce did to you. And I was the one that had to slowly scrape you off the floor month by month. I don't want to have to do that again, for both of our sakes. ED You won't. I promise. This is gonna be different. PAST KELLY Hey, guys. GORDON How's it going? ED Hey. PAST KELLY Hey. So, I had one of the engineers program the simulator with one of my favorite spots on Earth. I don't even know if it still exists for real, but I thought we could go, anyway? Gordon, you and Bortus should come, too. I already invited Talla. ED Sounds great. ED I don't know how much more of this I can take! GORDON Dude, it's so loud! PAST KELLY Come dance, you guys! TALLA Yeah, it's so fun out there! ED You know, I think we're just gonna stay here and finish our drinks! PAST KELLY What?! ED We're just gonna finish our drinks! PAST KELLY The bathroom's that way! ED No, no I said PAST KELLY What?! ED We're just gonna stay here and blow our brains out! PAST KELLY Okay, cool! ED Okay! Hey, is that Yaphit?! GORDON That's nothing! Look! BORTUS This is glorious! The music is very similar to a popular mating song on Moclus! KLYDEN You must come dance with us! GORDON We're okay, but thanks! BORTUS The restroom?! It is that way! KLYDEN Bortus! Listen! BORTUS We must return to the dance! The night is ours! GORDON Is this what you want?! KELLY Every mature person has to make peace with the fact that they used to be dumber. But to have it thrown in your face every single day... man, it sucks. CLAIRE You're handling it a lot better than I would. KELLY Well, she has she has no clue. You know, she looks at something like marriage and sees this emotional high all the way to the horizon. Which it isn't. You know, it it changes and evolves. It goes through phases. I mean, there's times you feel like you d you don't love the other person anymore, and you'll never love them again. And then one day you do. You should've heard the way she talked to me. CLAIRE The young always dismiss the old. It's a way of pushing away the truth. KELLY You just called me old. CLAIRE You're not old. KELLY Is she right, though? Am I a disappointment to myself? She's, she's me, so it's hard to deny it. CLAIRE Don't let her make you feel sorry for yourself. You've done great things. You're smart and powerful. You're a kind and generous friend. And to top it off, you're the Commander of a Union ship. KELLY I used to think I'd be a Captain at this point in my life. CLAIRE You got married. KELLY Even that didn't work out. You know, I thought I'd have a husband and kids by now. A A real life. CLAIRE Real is relative. I dated an artificial life form and thought I'd found my perfect match. Goals change. Things become more beautifully complicated. And so, we have to stop every so often and reassess. What is it you really want? PAST KELLY What do you think? I replicated it to match one I have at home. ED Wait a minute, that's right. I remember that. That's the one Kelly wore on our one year anniversary. PAST KELLY For God's sake, I was, I was trying to surprise you. ED Well, you know what, it's... even better the second time around. PAST KELLY Good save there, Mercer. Come here. What'd you think of the club? ED Oh my God, so fun. PAST KELLY I know, right? ED Yeah, yeah. PAST KELLY Talla made me give her a copy of the program. It's such a cool place. You should've danced with us. ED You know, I would have. My...sciatica, so, yeah... PAST KELLY Oh... right, your sciatica. ED Yeah, yeah. PAST KELLY Oh. Mm. Listen... I really like you. ED Well, I really like you, too. PAST KELLY Let's keep it simple, then. ED Mm. Mm. Um, wait, just... PAST KELLY What's the matter? ED I don't know, it's, um... I don't know. PAST KELLY Well, let me help you figure it out. ED I Doesn't... doesn't this feel just a little messed up? PAST KELLY No, not to me. ED Look, I'm not saying I don't want to. Believe me. It's just... I've already felt all of this... with someone else. PAST KELLY Oh. ED Seven years ago, she was you. And I was completely in love with her. And yes, she's changed a lot over seven years, but so have I. I mean, we've evolved together. And... I still love her. PAST KELLY But... she's me. BORTUS Bridge to Captain. The two Kaylon vessels have re entered scanner range. They are on an intercept course, and will arrive in eight point two minutes. ED I'm on my way. ED Sorry to pull everyone out of bed. KELLY How far are they? BORTUS Estimated time to intercept, seven minutes. GORDON Captain, we can't outrun a Kaylon ship. ED We can try. Isaac, divert all available power to the quantum drive. ISAAC Aye, sir. PAST KELLY Ice. ED What? PAST KELLY We're not far from the Vendek system, right? ISAAC Approximately three point six light years. PAST KELLY Well, Vendek 2 has a co variant ring system if I remember correctly. KELLY That's right. I did a report on co variant rings in grade school. I researched that planet. ED That's great, how does it help us? PAST KELLY Jovian rings are made of chunks of ice. So, we join the pack. We slip inside the rings, and jettison as much water as we can, which should create a film of ice around the hull. KELLY Then we shut down all power until the Kaylon are gone. PAST KELLY Exactly. With luck, we'll blend right in. ED Gordon, set a course for Vendek 2. GORDON Aye, sir. ED Turn on the hose. BORTUS Aye, sir. BORTUS The Kaylon ships are closing. ED Isaac, shut down all power. GORDON They're moving away. ED We'll stay powered down until 0600 hours. KELLY Come in. Hey. PAST KELLY Hey. I owe you an apology. KELLY That's a funny coincidence, 'cause I owe you a thank you. So, maybe we say they cancel each other out? PAST KELLY I was a real bitch. KELLY Been there. PAST KELLY That bridge is a big place. I really felt for the first time the gravity of what you do every single day. You're kind of amazing. KELLY Well, there's a lot of you in there. Come in. Lamarr, what is it? JOHN A breakthrough. We think. KELLY What do you mean? JOHN Well, I can't make any promises. But I think we've found a way to send Lieutenant Grayson back to her own time. ISAAC By reversing our quantum plasma polarity and inducing a laterally symmetric field in the ship's graviton emitters, we may be able to reproduce the effects of the gravitational phenomenon. JOHN Now, if we can focus the wave through the lens of the Aronov Device, we can send you home. Right back to the moment you left. KELLY I know that look. There's a downside. JOHN It's gonna take a lot of gas. We'd have to draw power straight from the quantum drive. Like, way more than we'd ever use at top speed. ED That's gonna put a hell of a strain on the ship. PAST KELLY Wait a minute, even if it works, what about all of my knowledge of the future? Even if I keep my mouth shut, no one could resist the temptation to make changes based on that kind of foresight. CLAIRE We could do a memory wipe. GORDON Aren't those kind of risky? CLAIRE Uh, uh, they are. There's always the potential for brain damage, so you'd have to make that decision for yourself. BORTUS Why are you smiling? PAST KELLY Because we know it'll work. CLAIRE How? PAST KELLY It already worked. And you sent me back successfully. That's why you don't remember any of this. ED Isaac. John. Do it. PAST KELLY I'm really gonna miss you guys. ISAAC That is incorrect, Lieutenant. You will not remember these events. BORTUS Lieutenant Keyali, please report to the bridge for final systems check. TALLA On my way. PAST KELLY Hey, Talla. How about we meet for a drink seven years from tonight? TALLA What do you say? KELLY I'll see you in the mess hall at eight. I'm glad I got to know you. I feel like I know myself better. PAST KELLY So do I. And I'll tell you this I can't wait to be you. JOHN Lamarr to Captain. We're ready to go down here. ED Acknowledged. PAST KELLY Well, I guess I'll see you soon. ED I'm sorry. PAST KELLY It's okay. I don't blame you. She's something special. ED That's... not what I mean. talking about. I'm sorry for what I'm about to do over the next five years of your life. The absence, the neglect. I wish I could undo it all. CLAIRE Captain, I'm ready to begin. We'll see you in the future. ED Mercer to bridge. We're on our way. ED Mercer to Lamarr. Initiate sequence. JOHN Acknowledged. Here we go. CLAIRE Memory wipe is complete. It's all you, Isaac. You sure this'll work? ISAAC Not at all, Doctor. YAPHIT Quantum field is at maximum. JOHN Engineering to bridge We're right up against the red line. ED Isaac, what's your status? ISAAC Graviton level is insufficient, Captain. ED Lamarr, can you give Isaac any more? JOHN Not and guarantee field stability. ED Do it. JOHN Yaphit, divert power from the deflector grid to the quantum field. ISAAC Output is still insufficient, sir. KELLY Isaac, for God's sake, how much more do you need? ISAAC A 15% power increase would be adequate. The temporal field is stable. ED Lamarr, can you give us another 15%? YAPHIT Is he nuts? JOHN Captain, that'd be a bad idea. We're way past safety margins. ED Fire it up for ten seconds. If Isaac can't do it by then, shut it down. JOHN Aye, sir. TALLA All departments reporting overloads. BORTUS Hull integrity is weakening. KELLY Ed. ED Shut it down. ED Hey. PAST KELLY Hi. ED I hope I'm not calling too early. Did I wake you up? PAST KELLY No, no, I I was, um... ED You okay? PAST KELLY Yeah. I... what's up? ED Well, um, I know this goes completely against the cool guy playbook, but... I had a really great time with you last night. And, I was wondering if I could take you out again. PAST KELLY I just, um... I just don't see us working out. I'm sorry.